Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

Engineering Happiness: A New Approach for Building a Joyful Life

by Manel Baucells

248 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780520268203
About
Manel Baucells and Rakesh Sarin have been conducting ground-breaking research on happiness for more than a decade, and in this book they distill their provocative findings into a lively, accessible guide for a wide audience of readers. Integrating their own research with the latest thinking in the behavioral and social sciences--including management science, psychology, and economics--they offer a new approach to the puzzle of happiness. Woven throughout with wisdom from the world's religions and literatures, Engineering Happiness has something to offer everyone--regardless of background, profession, or aspiration--who wants to better understand, control, and attain a more joyful life.
• Shows how a few major principles can explain how happiness works and why it is so elusive
• Demonstrates how the essence of attaining happiness is choice
• Explores how to avoid happiness traps
• Tells how to recognize happiness triggers in everyday life

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